In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: B. Pocker Bahadur from Madras made a powerful plea for continuing separate electorates.
Reason: He believed minorities exist in all lands, they could not be washed away, and they could not be “erased out of existence”.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

Reason: He believed only separate electorates would ensure that Muslims had a meaningful voice in the governance of the country. The needs of Muslims, Bahadur felt, could not be properly understood by non-Muslims; nor could a true representative of Muslims be chosen by people who did not belong to that community.